Monday, February 2, 2015

I've done this joke 100 times before but I don't care! YOLO motherscratchers!!! Let's open up my pack!

First
card of the year: Jimmy Rollins, pack cover boy and 2014 Clemente Award
winner. And apparently a Dodger now?? That's just wrong. J-Roll is a
Phillie phorever. Not interested in players being on the wrong teams
right now.

UGH.
Marteeeeeeeeeen in an ugly gritty Deeeeeeeee-Backs uniform on a card
that indicates he was traded to the Damn Yankeeeeeeeees last year. Oh
well, we all still love Prado and it can't get any worse than this.

oh god no it's real now he has a BASEBALL CARD with that filthy team on it nooooooooo
Note
how Deal used the old '60s Topps trick of using a picture with no cap
for players who were traded to other teams. Very sneaky and it makes me
want to jump off a bridge a little less because, hey, '60s Topps-style
Heyward.

HA!
This guy never got traded. Maybe I can flip this to Sooz. And all you
douchebags complaining that Jeter is in 2015 products can suck it like
an Everlasting Gobstopper.

Onto
the inserts! First up is a 2010 Upper Deck Kris Medlen card with
absolutely no MLB logos on it at all. NONE AT ALL. Damn I miss Upper
Deck. I miss Kris Medlen too, he's signed on with the Royals.

2012
Topps '87 Topps Mini Thingy of Brian McCann. Like Prado, Brian is also a
Damn Yankee. Wait, Prado got traded to the Marlins. DAMMIT YANKEES. I
still insist that all Brian has to do is play halfway decently with the
Yankees and make one good playoff run with them and he's a cinch Hall of
Famer. That didn't happen last year though. Stoopid Yankees.

Yeah! Evan Gattis Rookie Cup Chrome! He's gonna smoosh ALL the home runs this year! For the Astros!

*LOUD SOBBING*

This is a very difficult year for me baseball wise.

Bobsled
randomness! I think the rationale behind this particular card showing
up in this particular pack is that Meyers is from Georgia and lives in
Fairburn. Sadly, the Braves traded Elana to Switzerland last month for a
speed skater and a 'secure' bank account to hide their Cobb County
Stadium Slush Fund from the feds.

Yeaaaaaaaah Chipper never got traded! He's also the de facto 2015 team MVP as long as he keeps on tweeting.

MOJO!!! 1966 Topps Braves card I didn't already have.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeet! A semi-high number '66 Rookie Starts card of Herb
Hippauf and Arnie Umbach. Herb and Arnold were also lifelong Braves, as
Herb threw 3 games of relief in '66 and Arnie won his only start for
Milwaukee in '64 and pitched 22 more games for Atlanta in '66. Check out
the cropping on Arnie's side of the card. Someone put the white bar in
the wrong place!

1965
Team card! Like 1964, the Braves are again staring at 5th place in
2015. There was much discussion on Twitter what that stain is on the
right side of the card. I say good ol' fashioned water. Other guesses
were Kool-Aid, coffee and wine. What do you think droozled all over this
poor card?

CHIPPAH HOT PACK
2015
Topps base cards vaguely remind me of some Fleer set from a decade ago
that I can't quite place as does this Ginter design from 2011. Remember
2011? Life was good in 2011.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
A Chipper card I'm almost 100% sure I don't have! I really need to stop
being lazy and finish cataloging all my Chipper cards. I really like
this USA patch design. Goes to show that Panini CAN design a decent
looking card every once in a while.

On an unrelated note, is the WBC still a thing? I can't remember the last one at all.

FIFTY-SEVEN MOJO HITZZZZZZZZZ
Johnny
Logan fills an empty pocket in my Braves binder. It's also the only '57
Logan in existence with a Ghost Five on the front. EBay 1 of 1, baby!

After
learning all about Faces and Heels in my Randy Savage post, I want to
see Bryce and Chipper throw down in the ring. I wonder if crossbows are
illegal in wrestling.

Hall'a' Famer Johnny Smooooooltz! I literally just traded anything to Thorzul for this card.

Fan
favorite Gerald Laird is the final card in the buyback portion of the
pack. Gerald was also a victim of the massive roster purge this
offseason and had his roster spot snagged by AJ
Pierzimnotbotheringtomemorizehowtospellhisname. I also needed this card
for my Braves team set binder although you wouldn't know it because I
haven't put together a want list yet. Dang, it's 2015 already, isn't it?

WOOOOOOO
AN ACTUAL CURRENT BRAVE. Nick also gets the '66 Topps treatment with no
cap. I may need to appropriate these images and MSPaint them into 'a
'66 Topps design. For some reason I'm starting to appreciate the 1966
set all of a sudden when it's the new Heritage design. Topps is
brainwashing me somehow, I know it.

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My original crappy neglected blog what I'm trying to resurrect this year

Note on the Blogroll

If you have a blog, and it ain't on here, LET ME KNOW! There are a lot of good blogs I'm missing out on. I'm also very forgetful and sometimes forget to put it on the list even if I do find a good one. If your blog is about cards or trading or sports in general I'll fit it in, but don't try to sneak your blog about politics or cats or crop rotation in the 14th century on here.